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Background Briefing has a new home at BackgroundBriefing.org.
Please visit and bookmark the new site. You can search show archives here.
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| We begin with the musical chairs in the Kremlin where the power behind the throne Vladimir Putin, is stepping out of the shadow of his puppet Medvedev, the current President, to re-assume the role as the next President of Russia, a role he never really relinquished. Nina Khruscheva, a relative of a former Soviet leader and professor of International Relations at the New School joins us for a reading of the latest Kremlin tea leaves. |
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| Then Bob Stern, the president of the Center for Governmental Studies joins us to look into how a crooked local accountant looted the campaign funds of a lot of the prominent Democratic politicians in California, including Senator Feinstein and Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez, leaving many Democratic office holders vulnerable for re-election in 2012. |
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| Then, finally, we speak with Adam Winkler, professor of Constitutional Law at UCLA and author of the new book, “Gunfight: The Battle Over the Right to Bear Arms in America”. We discuss an untold history Adam Winkler’s book reveals that explodes the myth of the Wild West and finds that the Ku Klux Klan began as a gun control organization and that the modern gun rights movement was inspired by fear of the Black Panthers. |
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